"Fictitious" registration is now defined as both registering a foreigner at a non-residential premises as well to an address for an organization at which the foreigner does work. The previous version of the law mentioned only that the foreigner must be registered in a residential premises.

These changes were enacted with the passage of Federal Law No. 366-FZ dated October 11, 2017 “On Amendments to Articles 2 and 23 of the Federal Law 'On Migration Registration of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons in the Russian Federation.'".